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...charter-school advocates knew they would face resistance, but they did not expect the full-throttle counterattack they got. The first hitch occurred when the state education department took a full six months after the new law was adopted to issue 12 pages of onerous rules and regulations governing Arkansas charter schools. Even at that pace, lobbyists for the state's school boards, administrators and teachers protested that the process was moving too quickly. The bureaucratic delay left Brothers and his allies barely three months to identify an appropriate school site, draw up policies for admissions, personnel and attendance, hold...
There's a hitch, of course. If you need to tap your tax-deferred savings early, you'll pay a penalty. And at some point, you must begin taking minimum amounts out or pay another penalty. Worse, with a tax-deferred account, you or your estate will eventually get socked with income tax on withdrawals at federal rates up to 39.6%--not the relatively friendly capital-gains rate of 20% that applies to other long-held investments. Still, tax-free growth far outweighs any of the negatives that come with it--for most of your life...
...They were supposed to issue the announcement Thursday [June 23]," said a media industry source with an active interest in the appointment. "They called up and said there had been a slight hitch and it would be Friday. And then, bingo, it didn't happen...
With $70 million in long-term funding from the late biotech entrepreneur Wallace Steinberg, TIGR (pronounced tiger) finally gave Venter freedom to do what he wanted. But there was a hitch. First crack at any genes it decoded went to the nonprofit institute's commercial partner, Human Genome Sciences, led by former AIDS researcher William Haseltine...
...grandfather worked here before the advent of the telephone," he says, "He'd get up early, hitch up the horse, take orders, then buy produce in the marketplace and come back again and make deliveries...